Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Web 2.0
What’s all this talk about Ping.fm?
This past weekend I attended the first ever PodCamp Ohio. It was great! I learned some new stuff and, had I not had this stupid head-cold, probably made some new friends. While at the event, I heard a lot of chatter about Ping.fm, which is a new service that makes it simple to update your many social networks.
Now one of the other things that I learned while at PodCamp Ohio, in the “Orchestrating a Viral Explosion” session, was how to drive “talk” about your online program/application by making it “invite only”. To suggest that a person is part of an elite. Gmail is a perfect example of a company that tried this tactic and found it to be quite successful. This is why Ping.fm is requiring a “beta key code” to join. Notice that on their login page they give you a hint that it is pretty easy to acquire this important key code. All you need to do is simply contact them and ask for one. So, does this type of product campaign work? I’m blogging about, so I would have to say that in many cases it does. Go get your beta code and see what Ping.fm is all about!
30 Jun 2008 Catholic Tech Tips
There was also an ongoing joke around PodCamp about how Twitter is seldom working. Perhaps this Ping.fm can help lesson the load of the Twitter servers. We can only hope. I actually just joined a Facebook, “FailWhale” fan page : )
See a butt-load of pictures and videos from PodCamp Ohio.
From watching summize.com I’ve noticed that many people are using Ping.fm to update from mobile to twitter, seems like their sharing feature is really catching on…
HaHa! There is an Official Fail Whale T-Shirt : )
Hey Tom,
That site is pretty cool. I’ll have to post about it. Thanks : )
Well, after a couple of weeks, I finally received my beta code (they must have gotten bombarded with requests)! I’ve tested Ping.fm out with Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter and it worked flawlessly. I like it! My FriendFeed already picks up my Twitter feed so I didn’t have to ping to it. This could get very complicated. Now only if they could update my status on MyChurch.org. I’ll do some e-mailing to see if I can’t get that done.